Plenty of materials for a potential dirty bomb are likely scattered
throughout the area of Iraq controlled by ISIS, and pulling off an
attack that spreads even a minor amount of radiation could be a huge PR
coup for the terror group, experts told FoxNews.com.

Last week,
the Iraqi government in Baghdad warned the UN that ISIS operatives had
stolen 88 pounds of uranium compounds from Mosul University. Even though
many experts said the research materials were not enough to cause
widespread harm, spreading fear is even more important to terrorists
than a big body count, one terrorism expert said.

And with ISIS in
control of a huge swath of northern Iraq and parts of Syria that
includes research labs, hospitals and industrial sites, ingredients for
radiation-spreading bombs are within its grasp.

“Obtaining radiological material from places like universities or
hospitals is relatively easy if you have the firepower, a chaotic
situation and jihadists willing to sacrifice their health handling it,”
said Ryan Mauro, national security analyst for The Clarion Project, a
think tank that studies Islamic extremism. “We aren’t talking about...

“The
U.N. mission in Libya said the closure of Tripoli airport and the
deteriorating security situation made it impossible for it to operate.
Three years after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi, Libya has slipped deeper
into chaos with its weak government and new army unable to control
brigades of former rebel fighters and militias who often battle for
political and economic power.” Not that the UN does any good in Libya or
anywhere else, but this entire situation in Libya is all thanks
to…Barack H. Obama.

TRIPOLI, Libya – A militia shelled Tripoli airport,
destroying 90 percent of planes parked there, a Libyan government
spokesman said Tuesday as heavy fighting between armed groups prompted
the United Nations to withdraw its staff. At least 15 people have been
killed in clashes in Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi since
Sunday, and a Libyan official said several Grad rockets hit the Tripoli
International Airport on Monday, damaging the control tower.

Government spokesman Ahmed Lamine said 90 percent of the planes
parked at the airport were destroyed. “Several planes and cars belonging
to citizens were hit,” said Abdel Rahman, a soldier in a unit
protecting the airport. A hall used by customs controls had also been
hit, he added. The U.N. mission in Libya said the closure of Tripoli
airport and the deteriorating security situation made it impossible for
it to operate. Three years after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi, Libya has
slipped deeper into chaos with its weak government and new army unable
to control brigades of former rebel fighters and militias who often
battle for political and economic power.

Kitty
Werthmann is 85 years old.This is a SCARY piece of HISTORY. Read
& perhaps learnsomething new from
HISTORY and"CHANGE".America
truly is the Greatest Country in the
World.By: Kitty
Werthmann

What I am about to tell you is
something you've probably never heard or will ever read in history
books.

I believe
that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took
Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a
landslide - 98% of the vote. I've never read that in any American
publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks
and took Austria by force.

In 1938, Austria was in deep
Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25%
inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates.

Farmers and business people were
declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house
begging for food. Not that they didn't want to work; there simply weren't
any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people
in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed
those poor, hungry people - about 30 daily.

The Communist Party and the National
Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like
Vienna , Linz , and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and
petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they
wanted.

We looked
to our neighbor on the north, Germany , where Hitler had been in power
since 1933. We had been told that they didn't have unemployment or crime,
and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about
persecution of any group -- Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe
that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria . We
were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment
and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be
assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of
the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our
ruler.

State Police Now Fingerprinting Every Texan

HOUSTON – The Texas Department of Public Safety has quietly embarked on a project to take the fingerprints of every Texan old enough to drive over the next 12 years, and add them to a statewide criminal history database.

Not only has the department made that momentous decision on its own, it doesn’t even have clear legal authority to do so.

The credit for breaking the news on those two items goes to consumer affairs columnist Dave Lieber of the Dallas Morning News, whose long-running “Watchdog” column often shows up in my Google Alerts, for obvious reasons.

As an old-school columnist, Lieber tends to keep his opinions
subdued, and he doesn’t generally call people dishonest. But I have no
problem with doing that, so I’d like to point out that the DPS spokesman
he quotes at length is less than straightforward about his department’s
legal authority.

Last month, Lieber broke the news that DPS had started collecting full sets of fingerprints on everyone who went in to renew their license.

Friday, he followed up with a story on DPS’ dubious legal authority to do so, and then posted lengthy quotations on the issue to his blog.

Lieber quotes an entire email
from DPS spokesman Tom Vinger, who quotes Transportation Code Sec.
521.059 at length, including the key phrase, “The
department shall establish an image verification system based on the
following identifiers collected by the department: …an applicant’s
thumbprints or fingerprints.”

So clearly, the law contemplates the collection of fingerprints under
some circumstance, but the passage quoted by Vinger doesn’t mention
anything else about it.

You could look up that section of law online, but the sections immediately surrounding it in the Texas Transportation Code don’t clarify the matter.

To get the full context, you’d have to go back to the original bill that was signed into law, and then look up the relevant section
of law, which states that an application for a drivers’ license “must
include: 1) the thumbprints of the applicant or, if thumbprints cannot
be taken, the index fingerprints of the applicant.”

So that’s why the law mentions fingerprints — it’s index
fingerprints, not a full set of 10 fingerprints.

While the law mentions
that those records can be used by law enforcement agencies investigating
a crime, it doesn’t say anything about making them generally available
in a criminal database.

According to Lieber, a political science professor at Texas Christian
University named Donald W. Jackson, who has a new organization called
the North Texas Civil Rights Project, is offering legal support if anybody wants to challenge this new policy in court.

Lieber says the solution is for the Legislature to pass a clear law
on the matter. I’d add that it throws into question the wisdom of having
a law enforcement agency oversee licensing at all. The investigative
function will always trump privacy rights.

The destruction of former IRS official Lois
Lerner's computer hard drive, the Federal Election Commission recycled
the hard drive of one of her former employees, adding to the list of
emails that have gone missing in relation to the IRS's targeting of
conservative groups.

In a letter to the FEC,
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa
and committee member Jim Jordan blasted the destruction of FEC attorney
April Sands' hard drive, saying it has hindered the investigation.

Sands resigned from the FEC in April after admitting to violating the
Hatch Act, which bans executive branch employees from engaging in
partisan political activities on federal time or at federal facilities.

She also had a history of tweeting criticism of Republicans while praising President Barack Obama, the Daily Caller reported.

"I just don't understand how anyone but straight white men can vote
Republican. What kind of delusional rhetorical [sic] does one use?"
Sands, who is black, wrote in a tweet on June 4, 2012.

A tweet by Sands on May 1, 2012, said, "Dear every single Republican
ever, When will U learn that Barack Hussein Obama is simply smarter than
U? Stand down, Signed #Obama2012 #p2."

And in a message on Aug. 25, 2012, Sands called Republicans her "enemy."

It is unclear whether Sands and Lerner communicated after Lerner's move
to the IRS, the Daily Caller noted, but the Oversight Committee letter
points out that Lerner was known to have communicated with other FEC
employees after her move.

Illegal Immigration Crisis Has “Made in Mexico” Written All Over It

One might hope that with a full-blown catastrophe looming on our
nation’s southern border, Democrats might have considered discarding
their standard talking points memo -- blaming the crisis on former
President Bush and the Republicans in the House -- and respond with a
realistic plan worthy of America’s national leaders.

Alas, we are not so
fortunate. Dead children literally are washing up on the shores of the
Rio Grande -- a result of chasing the dream of amnesty spun by the likes
of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. And the closest our brave
commander-in-chief has ventured to the border with Mexico is 220 miles;
and then only for a fundraiser in Austin.

Democrats claim Republicans in the House of Representatives are to
blame for the chaos on our southern border, because they failed to adopt
a “bipartisan” solution sent to them compliments of Harry Reid and his
merry band of liberals in the Senate. Republicans rightfully note that
Democrats never showed up to the negotiating table in good faith; always
intending to present an unreasonable plan in order to “frame” the GOP
with inaction and unleash Obama to act as he pleases.

Yet, one major player in this human tragedy at the border has largely
been lost in the dusty billows of this partisan scuffle: Mexico.

Yes, Democrats intentionally created gridlock in Congress
as a dangerous game of election-year brinkmanship; and yes, Republicans
thus far have failed to move forward in the House with specific,
targeted measures to protect the border and bring our 1980s-era legal
immigration laws into alignment with 21st Century needs of American businesses.

However, allowing Mexico to continue its blatant stoking of America’s
immigration crisis, presents itself a clear and present danger to our
nation’s security and economic well being.

Make no mistake -- Mexico is the real problem. Obama can blame economic
hardship, rampant gang violence and YouTube videos in Central America.
But it is the Mexican government’s affirmative facilitation of this
massive illegal border crossing that is directly responsible for the
current conditions along the border. The resolution of this
government-made crisis is quite simple:
immediately repatriate the
illegal entrants to Mexico – the country from whence this latest surge
of illegal aliens comes; and at the same time tell Mexico if it does not
start addressing the problem, strict economic sanctions will be
forthcoming.

Despite hand-wringing to the contrary by Administration officials,
there is no law that prevents the United States from immediately sending
these men, women and children back Mexico, especially given Mexico’s
role in ensuring they are dropped off on our doorstep. And, if we need
to temporarily house them for a few days in make-ship detention
facilities, there is no need to spend millions of dollars on new
buildings, or modernizing existing facilities; or – far worse --
transporting the illegal minors to households and community facilities
across our country. We could also house them temporarily in tent
cities, such as those proposed by my friend, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe
Arpaio.

Of course, Mexico is not acting alone. In fact, a recent agreement between Mexico and Guatemala
allows people from that Central American country to freely enter
Mexico, lawfully travel the length of the country, and have Mexican
officials turn a blind eye when they then illegally cross into the
United States. This is nothing short of an international conspiracy to
violate America’s laws and undermine our country’s sovereignty; and
Democrats in the Administration and the Congress play right along.

The clearest example of this immigration bait set by Democrats is the
Executive Order signed two years ago by Obama, known as the “Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrival” (DACA). As a result of this “Executive
Action,” Obama directed the DHS to “exercise prosecutorial discretion as
appropriate to ensure that enforcement resources are not expended on
low priority cases.” A translation of this bureaucratic gobbledygook can
be condensed into a single phrase: Immunity from deportation for
children illegally in the United States.

Unilateral decisions such as this made by Obama are just some of the
reasons parents in Mexico and other Central American countries are
sending their kids northward. They hope and expect – not without some
justification – that Obama soon will issue another such order granting a
new round of immunity from deportation for kids coming across the
border. Indeed, as recently as this past Monday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest
laid the groundwork for just such action, when he noted that immigrants
who “face a credible threat of death upon their return to their home
country” likely will be “granted humanitarian relief.” In a word --
Amnesty.

If things were not already bad enough from the meddling of Mexico, and the undermining of U.S. law by Democrats, now the United Nations
is moving to insert itself into the crisis and add international
pressure to treat all unaccompanied minors as “refugees.” Such a
determination by the erudite minds at the U.N. would carry no legal
weight in the U.S., but would embolden Democrats to double-down on
polices that so far have pushed America to the brink.

Republicans in the House must act quickly in the short term to head off
what could become an irreversible change to our way of life. In the
longer term, the fall elections -- which hopefully will result in a
Republican majority in the Senate -- and the 2016 presidential election –
which finally will rid us of this awful president -- cannot come soon
enough

Guy has been all over the resumption of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, the State Department-labelled terrorist organization this week. Naturally, the Left has largely taken a sympathetic and one-sided view of the conflict, falsely appraising Israel as the aggressor.
Why? Because Israel hasn't suffered any fatalities yet -- thanks, in
part, to its life-saving and necessary missile defense system.

An Israeli man delivering food to soldiers Tuesday at
the border of the Gaza Strip was struck and killed by mortar fire,
becoming the first Israeli death in more than a week of fighting between
the country’s army and Hamas militants.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told The Associated
Press that the man, in his 30s, was at the Erez Crossing with the Gaza
Strip.

rime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu passionately defended
his country’s right to defend its homeland and its people -- by any
means possible if necessary, he said -- when confronted with belligerent
and hostile aggressors. But he hasn’t ruled out diplomatic avenues to
end the bloodshed, either. Today, for example, he signed a cease-fire agreement brokered by the Egyptians. The proposal, however, was ultimately rejected by Hamas.

Thus, with overtures of peace bearing little fruit --
and news that Israeli citizens are now dying from Hamas-propelled
rockets -- Netanyahu told his countrymen in a television broadcast today
that he will not stand idly by while Hamas continues to bring about Israel's ruination, according to Reuters:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Israel will
intensify its week-old offensive against Hamas in Gaza after the
Islamist group continued firing rockets at Israel instead of accepting
an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire.

“It would have been preferable to have solved this
diplomatically, and this is what we tried to do when we accepted the
Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire, but Hamas leaves us no choice but to
expand and intensify the campaign against it,” Netanyahu said in
broadcast remarks.

So the bloodshed will continue. For what it’s worth,
I’ll leave you with Dennis Prager’s latest column, in which he cogently
explains why a nation so similar and with so much in common
with the United States is so despised and shunned by the international
community and the progressive left. Be sure to read it all.

Click on link to see and hear Gov. Jindal...https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3294062227707013876#editor/target=post;postID=8023781639728189093

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, mulling a run for president as a
Republican in 2016, is giving ammo to conservative leaders and
congressional candidates to battle Democrats on how health-care premiums
have gone up under Obamacare.

Jindal’s memo — the details of which were first reported Tuesday by
The Daily Caller — is titled “Over 1.2 Trillion Reasons to Repeal
Obamacare.” The memo is being sent out to conservatives on Tuesday by
Jindal in his capacity as honorary chairman of the group America Next.

It takes issue with how President Obama Obama, during his first
campaign for president in 2008, promised that his health-care plan would
reduce premium costs for the average family by $2,500 per year.

“Contrary to candidate Obama’s promise,” Jindal’s memo states,
“health insurance premiums have continued to rise every year President
Obama has been in office.”

“Compared to a baseline year of 2008 — the year Barack Obama was
elected — the average family premium for employer-sponsored coverage
rose by more than $2,500 — $3,671, to be precise.”

Jindal’s study argues that Americans have faced a cumulative $6,388
per individual, and $18,610 per family, in higher premium costs.

“Individually, ever-rising insurance premiums place a tremendous
squeeze on a hollowed-out American middle class — but collectively,
these costs amount to a massive weight on an American economy struggling
to grow,” the memo states. “All told, the American people have faced
$1.2 trillion in higher health insurance premiums due to Obamacare’s
failure to deliver.”

Jindal’s memo, which conservatives can use on the campaign trail this
year, comes as he attempts to establish himself as an intellectual
leader of the GOP.

The governor said his plan repeals Obamacare while offering new
proposals to lower health costs, guaranteeing access to people with
pre-existing conditions and increasing health-care choices for
consumers.

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